Four Things a Life Is Allowed to Want — The Puruṣārthas, and the End of the Apology
The same civilisation that produced the Yoga Sūtra wrote a manual on running a treasury — and filed money among the legitimate aims of a human life…
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The Four Seasons of a Life — What the Āśramas Actually Divide
Four stages, two legal routes through them, and a structure that is younger than it looks. Most suffering about age turns out to be an argument with w…